This is not iodine deficiency, as one might think, after reading the title. In reality, iodine deficiency does not exceed 20% for hypothyroidism and other thyroid diseases. There is a more significant reason causing changes in hormonal metabolism and changes in the gland. You should know and remember about it, follow simple rules that exclude or reduce its actions.
Recently, the VN.RU news agency posted an article stating that almost 20% of Novosibirsk citizens have signs of hormonal metabolism disorders. After all, this is a lot! In absolute numbers, these are 20 thousand people a year !!!
In other regions of the country, thyroid gland diseases affect fewer people.
Here is what is reported in the article:
Why is the number of thyroid diseases so high in Novosibirsk?
How is this region different from others? Maybe Novosibirsk less iodine? - Not. In this city there is the same average concentration of iodine, as in many other regional cities of Russia.
The main cause of thyroid disease is COLD.
Yes, it is - cold. According to the chief physician of the "Clinic of the thyroid gland," Dr. A.V. Ushakov, the effect of cold on the body occurs in two ways:
1) depleting energy reserves and therefore straining the energy-saving system, in which thyroid hormones play the main role and -
2) neuro-reflex direct influence on the thyroid gland, overstretching its parts.
The first path is associated with the loss of heat during a long stay in a cold and cool room.
Even in Cyprus in winter, the temperature of the day 15-18 degrees goes to 5-8 degrees at night (and less). Without sufficient heating in the homes of Cyprus, the inhabitants of the island have the same effects, straining the energy (high-calorie) metabolism of the body, which leads to an overstrain and a change in the thyroid gland.
Why do residents of the Crimea suffer? Why do they have hypothyroidism, nodes, hyperthyroidism (DTZ) and AIT?
There are dozens of scientific studies (dissertations, articles and monographs) reporting that the cold climate in the place where people live is the cause of hypothyroidism, autoimmune thyroiditis and thyroid nodules.
There is also a neuro-reflex path of cold action!
This is a cooling of the neck, head, throat (cold drinks) and limbs (hands and feet). The effects of cold on exposed areas of the body are transmitted by nerve conductors to organs, including the thyroid gland. Their irritation occurs, with damage or change of tissue.
What to do? How to prevent and treat?
Here are tips from Dr. A.V. Ushakov, chief physician of the “Clinic of the thyroid gland” (Moscow):
1. Be in sufficiently heated premises (at home and at work).
2. Avoid drafts.
3. In winter and around the winter season, dress fully. Cover your head, neck and limbs. A hat, a scarf, gloves or mittens, high socks, adequate shoes for insulating against cold - these are the source of thyroid health in the winter.
4. Do not drink cold drinks from the refrigerator. Can only room temperature.
5. Regularly and moderately eat. Food is a source of energy. Large intervals between meals - the time of overload of the thyroid gland and, accordingly, the condition for its change.
6. Not only isolate yourself from the cold with clothes, but also warm up. During the day, periodically go to the tap and pleasantly hot water warm the hands to saturation with heat, and then wipe dry.
7. If you have cooled down (ie, you felt it; for example, you stood for a long time at a stop or somewhere you expected something, and your legs and other parts of the body cooled down), then in the shortest possible time you need to heat in yourself, warming yourself from outside . At home it can be a warm-hot shower or bath. You can go to the nearest cafe and warm up your hands in the toilet room (see Section 6). Indoors, you can drink tea (but wait 20-30 minutes after tea before going out in the cold).
For individual diagnostics and consultation, contact competent specialists!